Android : Showing keyboard moves my components up, i want to hide them instead
Add android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" to manifest - to the corresponding activity:
<activity android:name="MyActivity"
...
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
...
</activity>
You probably want
<activity
...
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing">
</activity>
That will prevent any layout changes when the soft keyboard is shown.
There is probably some confusion over this since it's currently missing from the documentation at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#wsoft